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A New Mandatory Minimum for Gun Crime Will Cause Further Pre-Trial Delay And Jail Overcrowding

With the support of Mayor Rahm Emmanuel, HB2265 / SB 1342 was recently introduced to the Illinois General Assembly with the goal of imposing a mandatory three-year minimum prison sentence for people convicted of illegal use of a weapon. Our friends at the John Howard Association—in recent articles o...

How Illinois Supreme Court Intervention Can Help Cook County

How Illinois Supreme Court Intervention Can Help Cook County In response to President Preckwinkle’s letter to the Illinois Supreme Court, Chief Justice Thomas Kilbride has answered, proposing a meeting of the major criminal justice stakeholders and a conference of regional and national experts to d...

Charging for a Public Defense: The Impossible Choice Facing Indigent Defendants in Cook County

Today at DNAinfo Chicago, reporter Erin Meyer covers Chicago Appleseed’s recent investigation into judges denying public defenders to defendants without conducting the constitutionally-required indigence hearings. As mentioned previously on this blog, Chief Judge of the Cook County Circuit Court,...

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Chief Judge Evans Orders Indigence Hearing Reform in Response to Chicago Appleseed Investigation

Chief Judge of the Cook County Circuit Court, Timothy C. Evans, issued General Administrative Order No. 2013-11 yesterday in response to a Chicago Appleseed investigation that uncovered a practice where judges were denying defendants a public defender without the required indigence hearing. The Chi...

National Snapshot of Innovation and Failure in Criminal Justice Reform

On July 10, the Center for Court Innovation in partnership with the Bureau of Justice Assistance and the U.S. Department of Justice released the study, Innovation In the Criminal Justice System: A National Survey of Criminal Justice Leaders. This study is a multi-faceted inquiry into the state of cr...

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